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Minnesota Representative Michelle Bachmann is one of those Republicans for whom the Dems are eternally thankful. Every time she opens her mouth she removes any doubt about her education, her intelligence, and her common sense, all of which appear to be on par with those of a mentally challenged wombat.

If she's not accusing the dirty, dirty liberals of being UNAMERICAN and waxing poetic about the DANGERS OF TERRORISM she's pretending to be a qualified epidemiologist and speculating about the TRUE CAUSE of the recent outbreak of the Swine Flu:

Since my Hot SIL actually is an epidemiologist, I'm now taking bets on how quickly her head exploded after watching this clip. Poor Smart BIL - he has to clean up that nasty mess.

In Representative Bachmann's world, correlation equals causation, baby. Except when the president is a Republican, then it's all a DIRTY DIRTY LIE spread by the LIBERALS. Who are clearly UNAMERICAN.

I'm at work and can't see the video, but I'm guessing it's the one I saw last night, where she suggested that swine flu only happens under left-wing presidents. Funny, because I thought Gerald Ford, who was president in 1976, was a Republican.

Ha! I just watched this video: the one I saw last night was just the clip of Ms. Bachmann, and it didn't include the information about who was president at the time. I feel a lot less smug about making the connection now. The site I was reading yesterday seemed to be taking her word for it that the last swine-flu outbreak happened under Carter. I'm glad you linked to this version. I like this one more.

Actually, after listening to one of the spokespeople for the CDC talking about how this new flue includes parts of human, avian, and swine flu mixed together, I'm still waiting for the whole "It's a BioEngineered disease form Al Qaeda meant to kill us all" bruhaha to get started.

About Me

I am a Hot Chick living in Castle Rock, CO with my fabulous family. We have a rescue dog named "Jackson," and she's a Basenji/Shepherd mix. She's something of a head case, but we love her. I'm a U.S. Navy vet, and I currently work as an Enterprise Solutions Architect, specializing in VoIP and multimedia contact center design. I care about social justice, libraries, science, the U.S. Constitution and the military. I serve as a Director on our local library's Foundation Board. I'm a tax and spend liberal in a largely red county, but I try not to be stabby about it. I aspire to run faster than I do, and I donate knitted cold weather gear to various charities. Stupidity, cupidity and wanton assholery piss me off, and I'm more than a little soft when it comes to dogs and those who serve others. I blog about whatever I feel like. I use foul language, so if that sort of thing offends you, feel free to fuck off now - if I'm unwilling to clean up my language for my fabulous Great Auntie Margie, I'm unlikely to do so for you. Newcomers are welcome here, especially those who disagree with me, but trolling and spamming will be met with the Shovel of Doom™.